Word: causeway
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...locust conferences (New Delhi, November 1950; Cairo, March 1951) have discussed the problem. One obstacle to effective anti-locust action is that some groups have a pro-locust attitude. When the locust swarms entered India, a group of Jains, whose religion demands strict respect for animal life, built a causeway across a stream to help the locusts on their...
...Heaven on One Side." Late that afternoon I went back to Wolmi. Sitting along the road to the Inchon causeway were the marines of Taplett's battalion, ready to jump off again. Tanks were already on the move. I climbed a small ridge with them and watched what they were going into. Inchon blazed against the darkening sky, and the air over the city was choked with fumes and cinders. But in the far west the brightness of the setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with...
...lumbering Pershing tanks were rumbling over the causeway, and Taplett's battalion began to march slowly into Inchon...
...could see the causeway from Wolmi to Inchon now. Our marines on the little island were spitting tracers at the sea wall on which we were so soon to land. We stopped dead in the water and waited. The rocket ships cut loose, their missiles tearing into Red Beach, turning it into a whistling, howling hell. The sea wall seemed as high as the RCA Building...
...hung from the last rocket explosions and air and ground reeked with cordite fumes. Marines were running in every direction. After a moment I caught sight of Captain Jaskilka standing straight and calmly surveying the situation. He trotted on 150 yards to a small, gutted building near the Wolmi causeway. There he met his executive officer, 1st Lieut. Gilbert R. Hershey (son of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey). "They all got ashore fine, skipper," reported Hershey...